Traveling through 1942 with space

"Are you hungry? Come on, let me show you something delicious." Hou Xiaoge pulled the little guy and carried a small backpack into the yard.

"Wow! Brother, you actually caught a mouse, wheat, and so many wild vegetables. You are really awesome." The little guy was drooling as he looked at the mouse tied up in the basket.

"Shuanniu, do you know where is a hidden place? Let's find a place to roast these two mice and eat them. It's not safe to eat in this yard." Hou Xiaoge said to the little guy with a smile.

"I know, I know. There is a cave not far from the village. We hid from bandits there a few days ago." The little guy gestured excitedly.

"Okay, carry your luggage and let's go."

Hou Xiaoge was now very hungry, so he packed his luggage in a hurry. The two brothers avoided the refugees who had already risen and quietly left the village.

"Shuanniu, when I'm not around, don't run around by yourself. Some people specialize in catching babies and eating their meat!" Hou Xiaoge threatened the little guy while holding his hand.

"Alas! Heiwa and Erya, who fled with us, were swapped and eaten by their parents. In the end, only their heads were left, and it was buried by you and Aunt Zhang." The little guy sighed and moved closer to Hou Xiaoge with some fear.

"Alas! This world doesn't want people to survive!" Hou Xiaoge touched the little guy's head with some emotion.

"Brother, if there is really nothing to eat, then just eat me. Don't give me to anyone else. I don't want to die with only a head left." The little guy suddenly blurted out these words.

"How could I bear to eat you, you idiot! Besides, I'll definitely be able to feed you as long as I'm here.

Look, I caught two big rats today and found so much food." Hou Xiaoge comforted the little guy and then smiled and changed the heavy topic.

"Hey, brother, you're awesome, let's go!

I can't wait. When I see the big rats, I wish I could grow hands in my mouth to eat them." The little guy smiled and made exaggerated expressions when he heard about eating.

"Haha! Then let's have a competition to see who walks faster."

"Haha! I'm empty-handed, so of course I can walk faster."

In the morning sun, the thin yet cheerful backs of the two brothers seemed to bring a little vitality to this withered world.

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The cave the little guy described was indeed very remote, and was covered with withered yellow vines all around. It happened to be downstream of the refugee gathering place, so it was a good hiding place.

"Shuanniu, go find some dry firewood and don't run too far. I'm going to take care of the rat." After putting down the luggage, Hou Xiaoge began to arrange the tasks.

"Roger that!"

I don’t know where the little guy learned it from, but he saluted Hou Xiaoge.

"Haha! Good boy, you're a good soldier."

While the little guy was collecting firewood, Hou Xiaoge first found a few large stones to make a stone stove, and then began to deal with the mice.

“Squeak, squeak!”

Accompanied by two screams, the two big rats were directly thrown to death by Hou Xiaoge.

The chopped mouse was much more at ease, and obediently allowed Hou Xiaoge to cut it up and skin it.

As for what to use to cut, of course it is a kitchen knife! The two brothers have a kitchen knife in their possessions, which should be used for self-defense, and can also be used to handle food.

Because Hou Xiaoge had never killed a mouse before, the bloody mess was unbearable to look at.

After dealing with the mouse, Hou Xiaoge quickly took out some water from the space to wash his hands. The water was poured directly into the space. After all, it was spiritual spring water and could not be wasted.

"Shuanniu, do you know where there is water? Brother will go get some water. We can't cook oat porridge without water." Hou Xiaoge had just finished cleaning up when he saw Shuanniu coming in from outside with a small bundle of firewood, and asked.

Hou Xiaoge asked this even though there is water in his space. The reason is that only with water can people survive and stay. If there is no water, people cannot stay in one place for long.

“Yes, there is a small spring not far from our cave. Recently everyone has been drawing water from it, but I heard it’s almost dry.

When we fled here a few days ago, it was you, my brother, who fetched water.

"Alas! It seems that you have really forgotten the past." Shuanniu pointed to a small hill to the north of the cave entrance and said with a sigh.

"Oh! There's nothing I can do if I forget. When the time comes, just tell me about it, Shuanniu. You light the fire first, and I'll go get some water." After Hou Xiaoge said that, he went out with a bamboo tube filled with water.

After walking out of the cave and up about three hundred meters, a dry river appeared in front of Hou Xiaoge.

Hou Xiaoge continued walking upstream along the river for about 500 meters, and several voices appeared in front of him.

"Alas! The spring is almost dry. It seems we can't stay in Xiaoliu Village for long. I don't know how we are going to get through the day."

"Yeah! Everyone is fleeing north, and no one knows when it will end."

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Hou Xiaoge is still young and has no memory of this era. He doesn't want to cause any trouble, so he quickly hides behind a big rock.

After all, the teeth marks on the thigh bone and the ruins everywhere all show the sinister nature of people in that era.

After waiting for about five minutes, four middle-aged women and two young men in their twenties came down the hillside carrying wooden barrels.

After everyone walked away, Hou Xiaoge walked towards the spring carefully. After walking another two hundred meters, a two-meter-sized puddle appeared in front of Hou Xiaoge.

Hou Xiaoge immediately saw a trickle of water flowing out from the cracks in the rocks. The water flow was very thin. Hou Xiaoge estimated that it would take about a minute to fill a one-liter bottle of water. It seemed that the water was indeed about to dry up.

The water flowed too slowly, so Hou Xiaoge did not try to catch it. He glanced at the puddles filled with human and animal footprints and carefully went down the mountain.

Arriving near the cave and observing the surroundings, Hou Xiaoge put the bamboo tube into the planting space and directly filled two buckets with it. Then he walked into the cave carrying the bamboo tube.

As soon as I entered the cave, a burnt smell hit my nose.

"Brother, you're back! I've roasted the mouse and we'll be able to eat it in a moment."

At this time, the little guy was concentrating on roasting a mouse. After taking a look at the person who came in, he greeted him and then continued with his actions.

"Shuanniu, your fire is too big. The mouse has been burned into charcoal. It's inedible. Meat should be grilled slowly over low heat." Hou Xiaoge looked at the roasted black mouse, speechless.

"Uh! Didn't we roast grasshoppers like this before?" the little guy said innocently.

"Let me do the roasting! You go and rub the wheat, pick out the grains, and we'll make porridge later."

Hou Xiaoge took out two handfuls of a mixture of wheat ears and wheat collected from the mouse holes and put them into a wooden bowl, and asked the little guy to clean up.

“I can do this!”

The little guy put down the two roasted black mice in disappointment, quickly took the wooden bowl and started to clean the wheat.

Fortunately, the little guy was not burned for too long, and the rat meat was not very mushy, so it could still be saved.

Hou Xiaoge first scraped the burnt part with a piece of wood, then washed it with water, and finally baked it slowly over a low fire on a stone.

Ten minutes later, the aroma of barbecue filled the cave.

"Brother, it smells so good, I can't help it. Can you let me taste some first?" The little guy squatted in front of the barbecue and kept swallowing his saliva.

“Don’t worry, these mice are house mice. They have a lot of viruses on them. You need to roast them for a while longer to kill all the viruses before you can eat them.” Hou Xiaoge said with a smile, touching the little guy’s head.

"Toxic? All right then! Wait a little longer."

The little guy shrank his neck, indicating that his life was more important.

"Shuanniu, it's ready to eat." After waiting for another five or six minutes, Hou Xiaoge took a look and saw that it was sizzling with oil and was cooked through.

"Hiss, ha! Hot, hot, hot. The meat is so delicious."

The little guy picked up the roasted mouse with a wooden stick, blew on it and shouted that it was hot, while eating it in small bites, but he just couldn't stop eating.

"Eat slowly. No one is going to snatch it from you. After the barbecue, there will be oatmeal porridge. I'll let you eat your fill today." Hou Xiaoge looked at the little guy guarding his food like a puppy, smiled and shook his head.